Brick-handling apparatus.



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BRICK' HANDLING APPARAUS.

APPLICTION FILED )UNE 1, 1916- LQKM v Patentfed Sept. 5, 1916.

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W. W. DCKZNSON, la.

BRICK HANDLING APPARATUS.

APPLlcATloN FILED JUNE 1. i916.

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BliJCK-HANDLING APPARATUS.

@riginal application filed March 13, 1916, Serial No. 83,931.

Serial No. 101,048.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that l, WILLIAM W. DICKIN- soN, J r., a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Little Rock, in the county of Fulaski and State of Arkansas, have invented a certain new and useful limpro-vement in Brick-Handling Apparatus, of

.83931, filed March 13, 1916, and of which the present application is a division.

My object in the present improvement is to provide a simple and effective brick carrier having means whereby to support and carry dried, unburnt brick without clamping engagement therewith and without otherwise endangering crushing or breaking the brick in the then comparatively fragile state.

A further object is to provide a brick carrier having load discharging means of such nature as to permit, with the supporting means as shown in my application above referred to, of depositing the load directly over the space over which the carrier is spotted in its discharging operation.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a front elevation, partly broken away, illustrating the practical use of my improvement in picking up a load of dried, unburnt brick. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken substantially on line 2-2 of Fig. 1, through the suspended carrier, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged front View of the carrier, partly broken away and in section along line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Referring now to these figures, my improved carrier, generally indicated at 10, has an upper platform 11 constituting the top thereof and on which may be disposed an operators control box 12 as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, having various controlling handles 13, controlling both the operation of the discharging motor of the carrier as seen at 14 in Fig. 3 and also the operation of the traveling super-structure l5 as indicated in Fig. 1 and described and 'claimed in my co-pending application above mentioned, Aand from which super-structure Specification of Letters Patent.

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Divided and this appltion filed .Tunee 1v .1916.

ittllgtlfd@ my improved carrier is suspended by means of cables 1G connected to the upper forward and rear portions of the carrier sides 17 by means of turn buckles 18, the carrier being,

guided by means of rigid uprights 19 which telescope into depending rigid guide tubes 20 connected to the super-structure 15 and thus permit of raising and lowering the car- 'rier as a whole. A

Across the lower rear portions of the carrier 10, between the sides 17 thereof, is a casting 21 having supporting bearings 22, as seen in'F ig. 3, for tubular adjusting nuts 23, see Fig. 2, having worm wheels 24 in con nection therewith and in mesh with worms 25 adjacent the opposite ends ofthe motor shaft 26, the motor la for actuating, as hereinbefore referred to, being also mounted upon the casting 21. Through the tubular nuts 23, carrying the worm wheels Q1 are extended screw bars 27 rigidly connected at their forward ends to a transversely eX- tending push bar 28.

To the casting 21 are also connected the rear upwardly offset ends 29 of forwardly projecting pick up fingers 30, arranged in a spaced parallel series, as best seen by reference to Figs. 1 and 3, with their lower faces flush with the lower edges of the sides 17 of the carrier and the lower face of the rear casting 21, the series of pick up fingers so formed constituting substantially the supporting base of the carrier, for the purpose to be hereinafter described, it being noted particularly from Fig. 3 that each of the fingers 30 is of inverted'T-shape, its up- `standing web portion projecting through a conformably-shaped slot 31 in thepush bar 28, and of which there are a series corresponding to the numbers of the pick up fingers.

As thus constructed, the carrier is adapted for movement 'with the super-structure 15 beneath a load of dried unburnt brick, as indicated at A in Fig. 1, laid by templets upon a drying car, as seen at B, in the samer figure, the supporting surface of which has crossed spacing strips B' of sufficient height to enable the lower flanged portion of the pick up fingers 30 to be projected beneath the stack of bricks, the upstanding webs of the fingers extending into spaces between the bricks` which remain therebetween during the drying operation, to permit of free It is, of course, understood, at the time the pick up of the stack is made, the push bar' the stack within the kiln is to be started, or

over the partially completed stack, and then, by starting the motor 14 from the operators station upon platform 11, the push bar f2.8 is adjusted forwardly, until the stack is entirely discharged from the carrier, at which time the push bar 28 is substantially in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. By this arrangement the bricks may be readily removed in stacks from the kiln after being burnt, and readily and quickly stacked at any particular storage space outside of the kiln over which the carrier may be spotted. Furtheremore, by the particular arrangement of the pick up lingers, a considerable number of Abearing points beneath the entire stack results, so as to support the stack conveniently in proper position and cooperate with the sides of the carrier in preventing ready displacement. rIhe same structure additionally obviates the provision of means clamping or otherwise engaging the bricks and endangering crushing or breaking the latter.

I claim l 1. In a brick handling apparatus, a brick carrier having a series of spaced parallel pick up fingers forming the supporting base thereof, and a push bar extending transversely thereof and movable along the saidm pick up lingers.

2. In a brick handling apparatus, a brick carrier having a series of spaced parallel pick up fingers forming the supporting base thereof, a push bar extending transversely thereof and movable along the said pick up lingers to discharge a load, and power actuated connections for moving the said push bar.

3. In a brick handling apparatus, a brick carrier having a series of spaced parallel pick up fingers forming the supporting base thereof, and a push bar extending transversely thereof and movable along the said pick up fingers, said push bar being provided with a plurality of slotted openings thrugh which the said pick up lingers exten 4. In a brick handling apparatus, a brick carrier having a series of spaced parallel pick up fingers forming the supporting base thereof, supporting sides at opposite sides of the series of pick up lingers, and an operators platform connecting the upper portions of the said sides for the purpose described.

`5. In a brick handling apparatus, a brick carrier having a series of spaced parallel pick up fingers forming the supporting base thereof, a push bar extending transversely thereof and movable along said fingers, means for moving said push bar along said fingers, including screw bars rigidly connected to the said push bar, tubular adjusting members threaded on said screw bars and held againstlongitudinalv movement, and 'a driven shaft gearedly connected to said adjusting members.

WILLIAM WALLACE DIClIINSON, JR. 

